HomeAboutCelebrating our bicentenaryEvents and activities Share Home About Celebrating our bicentenary Events and activities Our stories Made in Manchester competition Talk 200: Lecture and podcast series Origins and Innovations: Historic campus tours Bicentenary Way Events and activities Discover the exciting programme of events and activities we had planned for our bicentenary year. Featured Talk 200: Lecture and podcast series February – November 2024 Universally Manchester Festival 2024 6 – 9 June 2024 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit 7 – 9 October 2024 Current and upcoming Instruments of Change: Manchester Digital Exhibition From Wednesday, 21 February 2024 SEEDs of Change: Planting expert ideas to address global challenges From Saturday, 1 June 2024 Past Access and success: 200 years of education without barriers Tuesday, 19 November 2024 'Manchester minds' book launch event Monday, 18 November 2024 Black History Month: Bicentenary and Beyond Wednesday, 30 October 2024 Quatuor Danel lunchtime concert – 200 years special Thursday, 24 October 2024 Irene Manton Lecture: Tenth anniversary and bicentenary special Wednesday, 16 October 2024 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit 7 – 9 October 2024 Talk 200: The unmaking of everything Tuesday, 17 September 2024 International Conference on Surface Science, Engineering and Technology 17 – 19 September 2024 Internationalisation Bicentennial Global Health Conference (FBMH) Thursday, 12 September 2024 The University at Manchester Pride 2024 Saturday, 24 August 2024 African Presence in The University of Manchester's Bicentenary Thursday, 25 July 2024 Festival of Business at Alliance Manchester Business School 25 – 27 June 2024 An evening with ‘One Love’ author Matt Cain Wednesday, 12 June 2024 Great Science Share for Schools 2024 Tuesday, 11 June 2024 FBMH Environmental Sustainability Showcase 2024 Monday, 10 June 2024 Universally Manchester Festival 2024 6 – 9 June 2024 Purple Wave at the Great Manchester Run Sunday, 26 May 2024 Lost Gardens of Fallowfield: Botanical Grounds open day Saturday, 18 May 2024 Making a Difference Awards 2024 live stream Thursday, 9 May 2024 Sustainability Action Month: Interactive activities and events 8 April – 9 May 2024 Origins and Innovations: Historic campus tours Until 31 December 2024 Three Decades of Quantitative Criminology at Manchester Wednesday, 20 March 2024 Universally Manchester Festival: Event/activity advice session 2 Wednesday, 13 March 2024 The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture 2024 Tuesday, 12 March 2024 Navigating women's challenges in the workplace – IWD2024 Wednesday, 6 March 2024 Universally Manchester Festival: Event/activity advice session 1 Tuesday, 5 March 2024 Green Together: Ways we can make a greener future 22 – 24 February 2024 Access for all: Are digital museums better? Wednesday, 21 February 2024 Health inequalities past, present and future Tuesday, 13 February 2024 Talk 200: A lecture and podcast series marking our bicentenary 1 February – 30 November 2024 Made in Manchester student competition Until 15 May 2024 Light Up: A pathway of light on campus and beyond Wednesday, 17 January 2024 Micropoetry competition 2024: 200 years of creativity Until 10 April 2024 Founders and Funders: Slavery and the building of a University Until 23 March 2024